Why Not Kill Them All? Chirot Daniel
Why Not Kill Them All? Chirot Daniel Genocide, mass murder, massacres. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the eradication of thousands and even millions of unarmed human…
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Why Not Kill Them All? Chirot Daniel
Genocide, mass murder, massacres. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the eradication of thousands and even millions of unarmed human beings caught in the crossfire of political, cultural, or ethnic hostilities? The words themselves are chilling, evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents.
Cowritten by historical sociologist Daniel Chirot and psychologist Clark McCauley, the book goes beyond exploring the motives that have provided the psychological underpinnings for genocidal killings. This question lies at the heart of Why Not Kill Them All? It offers a historical and comparative context that adds up to a causal taxonomy of genocidal events.Rather than suggesting that such horrors are the product of abnormal or criminal minds, the authors emphasize the normality of these horrors: killing by category has occurred on every